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Size [µm]
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Females 3000 - 4000
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Characteristics
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Large head with a multiocellar compund eye.
Exhibits a anterior-dorsal adhesion organ with which it attaches to plant leaves.
Antennula rod-like. Basal part of antenna is strong, with three-partite exopodit with
10 bristles and a bipartite endopodit with 5 bristles. 6 pairs of phyllopodes.
Hatches already at 6-7 ° C.
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Habitate
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Shoreline of lakes and ponds where it adheres to leafs of water plants.
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To see images, please click on thumbnails below.
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Images
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Midsummer female.
About 4 mm in size.
From a little lake, leaf of water lily.
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Polarisation image.
Note the strong antenna muscles and the postabdomen musculature.
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Autumn female (caught October 3rd 2008).
About 1.5 mm in size.
From a little Upper Rhine river lake, Shoreline plankton.
Note the missing rostrum.
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Dark field image.
Autumn female (caught October 3rd 2008).
About 1.5 mm in size.
From a little Upper Rhine river lake, Shoreline plankton.
Note the missing rostrum.
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General informations from: H Streble and D Krauter: Das Leben im Wassertropfen. 8th edition,
Frankh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1988
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